Howie Rose Reflects on His Final Mets Season and Legendary Career

So the other day, we watched your film, put in the books.

It's SNY now.

I mean, how did it feel to see your life unfold on camera? Weird.

Weird? Really

weird, because I kept checking my medical chart.

Like, am I okay? Because when people do that kind of thing, it's like, they know something I don't? But it was...

most emotional for me when my family were talking about me specifically.

That's

how I was touched by the family ties with the daughters

and Barbara.

That's

the thing that really came through with that for me.

Well, I'm so blessed, and we're all so close, and I've carried around a great deal of guilt ever since they were born about the time I spent away.

between doing two sports concurrently, full seasons, right? And so the way they've turned out and the fact that they have both at times taken it unto themselves to reassure me that I was always there when they needed me and that even if I was away, I was checking in often enough so that I wasn't detached.

I sat next to him in the press box, in the press room, after dinner.

You called your daughter.

Either one.

With the editor, always the daughter or wife called.

Yeah.

Now it's a lot easier now than it was before cell phones.

And if I was on the road, I had to hope that the phone in the booth that we were working in was free.

because I always felt very, very nervous when I didn't know exactly what was going on when I was X number of miles away from home.

But I never felt I was that far from them because I knew in my heart that we were always thinking of each other.

What do you think you want to give your wife her time now? Yeah, what did Murph used to call it?

Honeydew